Assistant Professor of Global Studies; Current holder of the Eugene M. Lang Professorship for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring

Profile:

Alexandra
Délano is an assistant professor of Global Studies and currently holds the Eugene M. Lang Professorship for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring. Her work focuses on emigration states’
policies, immigrant integration, and the transnational relationships between
states and migrants.

Her book Mexico and Its Diaspora in the United States: Policies of Emigration
since 1848 (Cambridge University Press, 2011) was the co-winner of the
William LeoGrande Prize for the best book on US-Latin America Relations and
will be published in Spanish by El Colegio de México in 2014. Other recent
publications include: “The diffusion of diaspora engagement policies: A Latin
American Agenda”, Political Geography,
2013 and “Invisible Victims: Undocumented Migrants and the Aftermath of
September 11”, co-authored with Benjamin Nienass (forthcoming).

She has been a Post-Doctoral
Fellow in Politics at the New School for Social Research, a Fellow at Yale
University, and has worked as a senior researcher for the Americas
Society/Council of the Americas. She is currently associate editor for the
journal Migration Studies (Oxford
University Press) and co-director of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at
The New School.

Her
articles have appeared in Political
Geography, International Migration Review, The Journal of Ethnic and Migration
Studies, International Migration, Perspectives on Politics, Social Research,
Americas Quarterly, Revista Mexicana de Política Exterior, Foro Internacional, Migración
y Desarrollo and Letras Libres.